August 2nd Release For Street Fighter II 145
Gamasutra reports that Microsoft has announced Xbox Live Wednesdays, a soon-to-be weekly release of content to Xbox Live. They have a listing of the next few weeks worth of content, and happily Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting is slated for August 2nd. Frogger will be coming out tomorrow, July 12th, with Cloning Clyde due next week, Galaga the week after that, and Pac-Man expected on August 9th. From the article: "Xbox Live Arcade's Frogger has been enhanced for the Xbox 360, and features new, enhanced artwork that matches and complements the original style. In addition, according to Microsoft, the game's audio, including sound effects and music, has been modernized to sound crisp and clear on today's high performance sound systems." While these releases have mostly been seen as filler for the 360's very uneventful summer schedule, I can't complain too much about the chance to play Street Fighter II again. I'll be playing Chun Li; Who is your character?
I paid $400 for this? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I paid $400 for this? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I paid $400 for this? (Score:2)
-Eric
Frogger (Score:1)
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You may find it hard to believe, but a lot of people in the world, and even quite a number that own xbox 360's, are actually excited over the prospect of playing this game on the 360 what with the global online multiplayer and the global scoreboards and all.
Re:I paid $400 for this? (Score:2)
Freakin' Slashdot.
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Re:I paid $400 for this? (Score:2)
2) You don't need a HDTV to play XBox 360. It'll play on a regular SDTV, a HDTV, or even any VGA computer monitor (with an optional adaptor.) In any case, I owned a HDTV before I bought the Xb
Re:I paid $400 for this? (Score:2)
XBox 360 isn't a bad console without HDTV even though you can get a better image with such a device.
People misspelling genius is still ironic but not really funny anymore.
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great balls of fire (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:great balls of fire (Score:5, Funny)
I'd say it was a down, down-forward, forward, quick punch sort of thing to do.
Thanks I'll be here all night!
Re:great balls of fire (Score:1)
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heh (Score:3, Funny)
Reported? (Score:1, Interesting)
Gamasutra is not a blog (Score:3, Insightful)
Check it out.
Release pulled from site! (Score:2, Interesting)
I'll be playing as... (Score:5, Funny)
Anyways, this is nice and all, but why not bring some RPG's into this? Frogger and Galaga get really old, really fast.... at least Street Fighter will keep me occupied for a bit...
Well, as I understand it (Score:2)
Re:I'll be playing as... (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9814 [klov.com] has a nice listing of the glitch moves. I need to find a machine or ROM that these will still work on.
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Re:I'll be playing as... (Score:2)
Been there, done that. I threw away the t-shirt as I couldn't get the stains out.
Re:I'll be playing as... (Score:1)
When the game first came out, me and my cousins would pick up Chun-Li, with Honda being the guy to beat and could never get past him
And BTW, Spinning Bird Kick!
Oh Great (Score:2)
If I had a 360. . . (Score:2)
Re:If I had a 360. . . (Score:2)
I used to hang around some great SF players back in the day and there really isn't that much difference between Ken and Ryu. A skilled player can take out your average button masher or thrower with ease.
Seriously though, is there going to be online play? If not then there's really no need to purchase this when SF2T has been released for several different consoles already...
Re:If I had a 360. . . (Score:2)
In the Arcade, Ryu also had the burning "Super Hadouken." I'm still a Ken fan myself, though.
D, DF, F + P (Score:1, Funny)
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Bless you!
dime/dozen (Score:5, Insightful)
you can play this one online (Score:3, Informative)
Obligatory: the dreamcast had online street fighter 2 ages ago... though it was Japan only, and used modems.
I, for one, welcome our new SF2 overlords! (Score:3, Insightful)
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The only balanced matches were with identical characters.
Anyone too lazy/uncoordinated to learn the moves? (Score:4, Funny)
So I'd either back off and mash the controller hoping for a "dookan" or that spinning kick, or get in close and try to pull off an uppercut.
Why not just buy the Street Fighter Collection (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Why not just buy the Street Fighter Collection (Score:5, Informative)
You don't need to tote the entire machine. Just a small memory card with your live profile on it. You can download and play the game on any machine after you've payed for it (if you are using your profile).
Re:Why not just buy the Street Fighter Collection (Score:5, Informative)
2) If you don't like it, just don't buy it. The Xbox 360 works just fine with good old fashioned disk-based games too, you know. However, I *do* like it, so let me have the choice to buy Live Arcade games if I want. Everybody wins.
Re:Why not just buy the Street Fighter Collection (Score:2)
If you don't like it, just don't buy it
That's pretty much the point of the parent post. They don't like it, and explain why so that others may understand and perhaps come to the same conclusion.
so let me have the choice to buy Live Arcade games if I want. Everybody wins.
I missed the part where the parent said that the Live Arcade should be shut down. I think there's a common argument
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Got it. (Score:2)
I'll probably be playing Blanka--some other characters are easier to win with, but somehow Blanka was always the most fun.
Because (Score:2)
Because the XBox 360's "partial" backward compatibility feature doesn't support it. [xbox.com]
Gotcha!
Re:Why not just buy the Street Fighter Collection (Score:2)
Re:Why not just buy the Street Fighter Collection (Score:2)
_that_ doesn't make it LEGAL?!
Downloading a street fighter ROM sure _is_ piracy. Especially now, since it's commercially available again for the 360.
Besides, you wouldn't get to kick ass or be kicked your ass online with the MAME thing.
Re:Why not just buy the Street Fighter Collection (Score:2)
and you can play MAME and any arcade game online using Kaillera [kaillera.com]
Re:Why not just buy the Street Fighter Collection (Score:2)
You're soul-crushingly stupid.
Finally, some hard dates on these! (Score:5, Insightful)
One thing the 360 regulars have been asking for are real, solid release dates. After the debacle with the Prey demo being delayed with no word from HQ because as MajorNelson noted, "release dates are bad," since slips mean trouble... I'm surprised we're getting actual numbers. One a week is great pacing, too; you can plan which ones you want and when you can expect to pick them up. Assuming they stick to the schedule.
Hats off to MS here. They've fumbled around a lot, but now they've got a good plan in place and are communicating clearly. And about time.
Now, if we could only get some retail releases that aren't shootdrivballing games with 2stick+2trigger control schemes...
Re:Finally, some hard dates on these! (Score:2)
I got the chance to play it a bit at E3 and was really impressed. It plays a bit like Lost Vikings or the more recent Mario Vs. Donkey Kong games, in that it's a side-scrolling puzzler. (On a related note, MvDK for DS is also very nice.) It might not be graphically fancy and it might not have 'original' gameplay, but it's a fair shade better than some recent big-name games I could mention (I'm looking at you, X-Men/Superman).
Oh, an
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I can just see it now... (Score:1)
Re:I can just see it now... (Score:2)
There won't ever be lag-free online play. Not aslong as there are people who don't like getting their asses handed to them and decide to cheat the system.
new, secret, unlockable characters (Score:4, Funny)
Damn... (Score:2)
If you buy this again, you are a tool (Score:1, Insightful)
I dunno why people are paying AGAIN for this and probably around $10 or more. You can get Hyper Fighting and all of its variants plus like 17 other games with the
Re:If you buy this again, you are a tool (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:If you buy this again, you are a tool (Score:3, Interesting)
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I love it.
DRM?! OH NOES!!!!11oneoneoneeleven (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm just curious, but if these titles WEREN'T DRM'd, which platform pray tell would you play them on? Lasy checked most of these titles coming out (Frogger, PacMan, SFII) have been available on the PC via emulation or PC versions for -years-, most being had for free.
So for those complaining about the DRM, just get a free version on another platform. And to the others who are complaining that XBox Live Arcade has been really lack luster lately with the games being released, perhaps you should ask the actual development studios?
Mean Green (Score:2)
I'll never forget the 8 second win on a match I did on a guy playing Ryu. All I could think is what a pain. I was playing by myself and he didn't bother to ask first before joining in. You know be at least curtious which most were especially the good ones. Ryu always seemed to not take certain hits from Blanka well.
I beat one kid once in under 20 seconds one day and he called it a microwave butt whooping. I thought it was funny... He did use butt either but I'm bein
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MISSING THE POINT! (Score:5, Insightful)
I understand you can go to the local dollar store and pick up an SNES version of street fighter, or pretty much for any system. I know this is where people are getting confused, "why would I pay for this shit when I can dust off my old trust SNES and play for hours!" Well this is the reason why
YOU PLAY ONLINE WITH PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD!
that's right! instead of having a select few friends that actually know how to play this game or even care to play you can now play . . . online!
that's all I have to say, online play is a great selling point now a days.. I sure as hell will be buying this when it's released on the 2nd..
MrJynxx
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Oh, boy. (Score:2)
The Xbox 360 sure gets all the great stuff, just like the Sony PSP!
Hmm... (Score:1)
From the revised article (Score:2)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Microsoft has asked us to remove this press release, which was erroneously sent to news outlets by them before actually intended.
We have complied, but will re-post the information as soon as it is officially released. We thank you for your understanding.]
They probably need to defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance.
SF2? Naaaah (Score:2)
no kidding (Score:2)
Omega Red was probably the cheesiest, though wolverine was a close second. Was it 1 or 2 that featured the dirty lift kick?
It was light medium (both ducking kicks) to get them off their feet, then a light/heavy kick to pick them up off the ground and launch into an air combo. 'tw
More! (Score:2)
Another question is whether this will really be the arcade version of SFII. There was a rumor goi
Re:No Wonder... (Score:1)
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If you see a PS3 for $599 an Xbox 360 for $399 and a Wii for $249 there won't be much of a decision maker for your average person to see that the Wii would be the best for the price.
Re:No Wonder... (Score:2)
Re:No Wonder... (Score:5, Interesting)
I've always thought it was strange to compare sales numbers for the 360 with other "X months in" numbers for other consoles - but consider this: the Xbox 360 hasn't been through a real Christmas season yet. It was intended to rack up some real numbers (and would've too), but MS suffered from terrible execution and couldn't deliver on the demand. The sales numbers right now mean nothing, it is not the hot console season right now anyway. If the 360 flops *this* coming Christmas season, then there may be some genuine concern for the console's future.
I can give you some credit for the 'nothing worth playing' bit, though it stands to be seen whether or not any of the PS3's powerhouse franchises will be available at-launch. Once Halo 3 rolls out we will see a huge surge in 360 demand (deservedly or not, I wasn't a huge fan of the second game).
As for defect rate, Sony isn't much better off. The Xbox towards the end of its life was pretty rock solid, while I was still hearing about dead DVD drives left right and center with the PS2. This isn't to say the PS3 will be a piece of junk, but one should remember that Sony doesn't exactly have a golden track record either.
And can we stop it with the "$200 for multiplayer" argument already? We don't know if the PS3's online service will be for-pay also, and hell, even if it were, can it offer the excellent experience that Xbox Live gives? I'd pay good money ($5/month isn't much) to have the type of matchmaking abilities Live offers. If Sony can offer that for free, great, they win, but we don't know anything about that, so let's dispense with the Sony fanboy fellatio?
So far, just in casual discussions with friends and colleagues, there is more interest overall for the 360 than the PS3, though in general people are pretty blah about the next-gen thing in general. The only people I know that are still committed to buying the PS3 are the hopeless fanboys and Japanophiles.
Re:No Wonder... (Score:2)
Joking apart, it's quite understandable that the XBox 360 is taking quite a while to gather momentum (as will PS3). The sheer effort required to produce titles for this generation makes it inevitable.
Personally I find XBox Live Arcade very encouraging in terms of what it suggests about the future of gaming. For me there are no killer apps yet in this generation, but I wouldn't be surprised if
Re:No Wonder... (Score:1)
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What's the problem? Don't you just plot vectors and let the GPU do all the work?
Could it be that game companies are simply falling back on this as an excuse to sell half-baked products (like Madden 06) to a niche market (360 owners now,
Not exactly. (Score:2)
Most development houses now have a much larger staff of content generators as well. In Doom, you had sprites. In Quake, you had incredibly low-polygon models (remember the Quake 1 guy's jarhead?). Oblivion, compar
Re:Not exactly. (Score:2, Interesting)
Another possibility is the procedural stuff that wil wright kept talking about in spore. This technology could be used to take simpler textures and make them look good on the fly maybe.
Re:No Wonder... (Score:2)
Re:Not interested (Score:5, Funny)
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Good thing xbox 520 games pay you to play!
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I understood just fine, he's comparing Microsoft downloadable games to Cartridge-based games.
Well, it's a good thing Microsoft's DVD-based games can't be resold.
OH WAIT THEY CAN'T WHAT AM I THINKING.
Re:Not interested (Score:1)
sadly, it's prolly the last game that i could school anybody at. so i'm getting it for the ego boost and satisfaction of bitch slapping my trash talking buddies.
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Re:No net play? (Score:2)
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